So too is the company Mark set up in 1994 to produce these weird but rather wonderful creations (plus the bobble hats, don't forget). It is called Philosophy Football, trading under the ironicslogan: 'sporting outfitters of intellectual distinction'.
Only in England, you might say. And you'd be right.
Yet the Philosophy Football squad is highly cosmopolitan. Other members include Umberto Eco (Italian), Bill Shankly (Scottish), Bob Marley (Jamaican) and Jacques Derrida (French). Derrida, it transpires, was a regular fan of Paris Saint Germain back in the 1960s, along with fellow philosophers, Jean Genet and Louis Althusser. His shirt bears the quotation 'Beyond the touchline there is nothing.'
The most obvious question for Mark, philosophical or otherwise, is why?
'Firstly,' he says, 'I don't like wearing a football shirt that has a sponsors' logo across it. I support Tottenham, not a brewery. So the T-shirts allow wearers to identify with a style of football divorced from the marketing which, to some extent, has soiled the game. Also, the shirts are a way of saying that football is a culture, that it's more than simply a way of selling other products, and more than what goes on on the pitch. It's about what goes on in people's heads. I'm also interested in the fact that people like Camus and Derrida played and loved the game. Derrida's ambition as a young man was to become a professional player, not a philosopher. Imagine what he might have contributed to the game's development if that had happened!'
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n.哲学；人生观 (初中英语单词)
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